Standards and technical regulations exist to protect consumer safety or to achieve other goals, such as ensuring the interoperability of telecommunications systems, for example. Standards and technical regulations can, however, raise substantially both start-up and production costs for firms. Maskus, Otsuki, and Wilson develop econometric models to provide the first estimates of the incremental production costs for firms in developing nations in conforming...
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2005/05/01
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Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas
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WPS3590
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2010/07/01
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Disclosed
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The cost of compliance with product standards for firms in developing countries: an econometric study
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foreign standard